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Everyone has their own mythologies. If the guy in charge shared yours, then the rest of the country would be annoyed. Boo-fricking-hoo.

As to Dionne... the problem is that when evangelicals give the real answer, non-Christians say it sounds ridiculous, or doesn't make sense. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. But I think Dionne's analysis beyond that is astute.

The problem is that Bush's answer wasn't the real answer, because it wasn't an answer at all, it was a self-aware shirk, avec smirk.

Even if I consider the "You totally wouldn't understand" subject to the niceties of moral relativism (everyone has their own mythologies... [villagevoice.com]), it's still too obscurantist (by far) to be coming out of the mouth of anyone even pretending to be a public leader.